Example sentences of "it [was/were] a good thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was a good thing Yeo Davis existed ; McLeish himself had often been quietly riled by the intellectual scorn which Francesca and her colleagues would bring to bear on criticism of some of their more sweeping policies . |
| 2 | The right wing says it was a good thing , Japan 's going into Manchuria to develop it ; the left wing calls it bad . |
| 3 | It was a good thing he knew the way so well . |
| 4 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 5 | It was a good thing the cameras could n't take pictures of the way she felt , she thought , and smiled inside herself . |
| 6 | Looking back , I think it was a good thing for the band at that point , ’ says Hallin . |
| 7 | I decided then and there that it was a good thing to be without wax . |
| 8 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 9 | It was a good thing , as Fa said , that the house had so many wastepaper baskets . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a good thing that ye did n't scream , ’ the detective said . |
| 11 | It was a good thing to do , everyone should try it once in a while . |
| 12 | One of Mozart 's contemporaries summed up what were probably the feelings of many fellow-musicians on hearing the news of his death : it was , of course , a pity that such a great genius was dead , but on the whole it was a good thing for the others . |
| 13 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 14 | So within that context , I 'd say it was a good thing , ’ says Linda Williams , a feminist and film professor at the University of California in Irvine . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a good thing to do . |
| 16 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 17 | For me it was a good thing to get married young because by the time I got into show business the marriage was already solid . |
| 18 | It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance . |
| 19 | So in that sense again in the language of of the old old ten sixty six and all that it was a good thing . |
| 20 | I remember that Lee once said that it was a good thing so many contemporary artists use shoddy materials because their works would happily disintegrate so future generations would be spared the sight of them . |
| 21 | We are not suggesting that it was a good thing that a flock of kids roosted on Mr Jones 's garden fence . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , and it was a good thing . |
| 23 | His sabre , unfortunately , was on the other side of the sepoy ( it was a good thing he had not noticed it because it was so sharp that he would have been able to slice Fleury in two without even pressing ) . |
| 24 | The humiliation was worse because it was so public , and it was a good thing that Annabel had not been in New York when the news broke , when gloating gossip writers had jammed Scott and Annabel 's home phones with their venomous questions . |
| 25 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was a good thing . |
| 27 | Maybe it was a good thing I did n't see Darrowby ; Helen 's home was near the bus route and I dropped off well short of the town . |
| 28 | Oh two or three years before , only it turned out , after a time , that the men were earning more money than me because I , the bonus , you understand , it was a good thing for the firm , it was a good thing for the men . |
| 29 | Oh two or three years before , only it turned out , after a time , that the men were earning more money than me because I , the bonus , you understand , it was a good thing for the firm , it was a good thing for the men . |
| 30 | ‘ But it was a good thing I was n't impatient , because the entertainment Linda and Emelda provided was far superior to anything I could have managed. ! |